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Clinton: Obama should honor health care pledge

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 01:25 PM PST

White House press secretary Jay Carney answers a question during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Carney answered questions on negotiations with Iran over their nuclear program, and the ongoing rollout of the new health care law. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)WASHINGTON (AP) — Adding pressure to fix the administration's problem-plagued health care program, former President Bill Clinton says President Barack Obama should find a way to let people keep their health coverage, even if it means changing the law.


GOP blocks key Obama court nominee in Senate vote

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 04:36 PM PST

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., center, joined by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., speaks to reporters after Senate Republicans derailed President Barack Obama's selection of Georgetown University law professor Cornelia Pillard to fill one of three vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Democrats used the vote to assail Republicans for opposing female nominees to the D.C. circuit. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans blocked another of President Barack Obama's picks for one of the nation's top courts on Tuesday, the latest skirmish in a nominations battle that has intensified partisan tensions in the chamber.


One World Trade Center named tallest US building

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:19 PM PST

FILE - This combination made from file photos shows Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, in Chicago on March 12, 2008, left, and 1 World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 5, 2013. The new World Trade Center tower in New York knocked Chicago's Willis Tower off its pedestal as the nation's tallest building when an international panel of architects announced Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, that the needle atop the skyscraper can be counted when measuring the structure's height. (AP Photos/File)NEW YORK (AP) — They set out to build the tallest skyscraper in the world — a giant that would rise a symbolic 1,776 feet from the ashes of ground zero.


Israel halts plans to explore new settlements

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:35 PM PST

File - In this Aug. 25, 2005 file photo, sheep graze in front of Maaleh Adumim, the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank, five miles (8 kilometers) east of Jerusalem. Israel's Housing Ministry said Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, it is exploring potential construction of thousands of new homes in West Bank settlements in the coming years. The announcement threatened to deal a new blow to U.S.-brokered Mideast peace efforts, which have run into trouble over Israeli settlement construction on occupied lands claimed by the Palestinians. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, File)JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Tuesday abruptly halted a plan to explore the potential construction of thousands of new homes in West Bank settlements, saying it had created an "unnecessary confrontation" with the international community that threatened to weaken his campaign against Iran's suspect nuclear program.


Trial for Air Force officer accused of groping

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:49 PM PST

FILE - In this July 18, 2013 file photo shows Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, who led the Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response unit, leaving the Arlington County, Va. General District Court in Arlington, Va. Krusinski is scheduled to go on trial for allegedly groping a woman outside a Crystal City bar. Forty-two-year-old Krusinski was initially charged with misdemeanor sexual battery following the May 5 incident. But Arlington County prosecutors subsequently dropped the sexual battery charge and substituted a misdemeanor assault and battery charge. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A woman testified that an Air Force officer who once led the branch's sexual-assault response team groped her outside a Crystal City bar, then asked her if she liked it.


Scientists: Oldest big cat fossil found in Tibet

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 04:30 PM PST

This artist rendering by Mauricio Anton of the Proceedings of the Royal Society B shows a reconstruction of an extinct big cat, Panthera blytheae, based on skull CT scan data. A team of researchers have discovered this oldest-yet big cat fossil, a 4.4 million-year-old skull. The research was published Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013 by the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. (AP Photo/Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Mauricio Anton)LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists have unearthed the oldest big cat fossil yet, suggesting the predator — similar to a snow leopard — evolved in Asia and spread out.


Scandal, latest loss have Dolphins fans fed up

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:03 PM PST

Tampa Bay Buccaneers outside linebacker Lavonte David (54) tackles Miami Dolphins running back Daniel Thomas (33) in the end zone for a safety during the second quarter of an NFL football game Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Miami Dolphins fans are venting on Twitter and complaining on radio about the team owner, the coach, the general manager and even the backup left guard.


Families grieve in Damascus after attack on school

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 12:16 PM PST

This Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows two Free Syrian Army fighters helping a wounded comrade during clashes in Aleppo, Syria. Activists say clashes have flared up between Syrian troops and rebels on the southern outskirts of Damascus as part of a weeks-long government push to advance on opposition-held areas. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Families in a central neighborhood of the Syrian capital wept quietly Tuesday as they retrieved the bodies of four children and their bus driver killed in a mortar attack on their school in a predominantly Christian area a day earlier.


AP PHOTOS: Typhoon: from landfall to aftermath

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 04:43 PM PST

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 file image provided by NASA shows Typhoon Haiyan taken by Astronaut Karen L. Nyberg aboard the International Space Station. Haiyan slammed the island nation with a storm surge two stories high and some of the highest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone — 195 mph as clocked by U.S. satellites, or 147 mph based on local reports. An untold number of homes were blown away, and thousands of people are feared dead. (AP Photo/NASA, Karen L. Nyberg, File)Five days into what could be the Philippines deadliest disaster ever, workers still struggle to get aid to those affected by Typhoon Haiyan. The scale of the disaster and challenges of delivering assistance means few in the region, strewn with debris and corpses, have received any help, despite tons of aid waiting to be distributed. The official death toll from the disaster rose to 1,774 on Tuesday, though authorities have said they expect that to rise markedly. President Benigno Aquino III told CNN that the death toll could be 2,000 or 2,500. Millions of people have been affected across a large swath of the country, many of them made homeless.


Gov't reaches agreement to allow airline merger

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:12 PM PST

FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2013 file photo shows an American Airlines plane and a US Airways plane at parked at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. On Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, the Justice Department says it has reached an agreement to allow the merger of the two airlines. The agreement requires them to scale back the size of the merger at key airports in Washington and other big cities. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines and US Airways reached a deal with the government that lets the two form the world's biggest airline and opens up more room at key U.S. airports for low-cost carriers.


Ohio boy who came home for early Christmas dies

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 12:18 PM PST

FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 28, 2013 photo, Devin Kohlman rests at his home in Port Clinton, Ohio after returning from a Cincinnati hospital. Kohlman, a boy whose last wish was to be home for his favorite holiday, has died, two weeks after his hometown welcomed him with a Christmas tree outside his window and a motorcycle-riding Santa Claus. Devin, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in the summer of 2012, died Monday, Nov. 11, 2013 in the afternoon, said family friend Roseann Hickman. (AP Photo/News Herald, Catharine Hadley, File)TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A boy whose last wish was to be home for his favorite holiday has died, two weeks after his hometown welcomed him with a Christmas tree outside his window and a motorcycle-riding Santa Claus.


1 World Trade Center named as tallest US building

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 10:21 AM PST

FILE - This combination made from file photos shows Willis Tower, formerly known as the Sears Tower, in Chicago on March 12, 2008, left, and 1 World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 5, 2013. The new World Trade Center tower in New York knocked Chicago's Willis Tower off its pedestal as the nation's tallest building when an international panel of architects announced Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, that the needle atop the skyscraper can be counted when measuring the structure's height. (AP Photos/File)CHICAGO (AP) — The new World Trade Center tower in New York replaced Chicago's Willis Tower as the nation's tallest building when an international panel of architects announced Tuesday that the needle atop the skyscraper can be counted when measuring the structure's height.


Martin's meeting with Dolphins owner postponed

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:41 PM PST

Tampa Bay Buccaneers outside linebacker Lavonte David (54) tackles Miami Dolphins running back Daniel Thomas (33) in the end zone for a safety during the second quarter of an NFL football game Monday, Nov. 11, 2013, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Brian Blanco)DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Jonathan Martin's meeting with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has been postponed until after the tackle talks with a special investigator about the team's harassment scandal.


Lone gunman, magic bullet, CIA or...?

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST

JFK assassination conspiracy theories - The Soviets Did It - introYears after, Americans still obsess over theories about JFK's death.


For TV pitchman Trudeau, one almighty legal cleanse

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:11 PM PST

Kevin Trudeau guilty of federal contempt chargesBy Adam Kirby CHICAGO (Reuters) - A federal jury found pitchman Kevin Trudeau guilty of criminal contempt on Tuesday for exaggerating the contents of his weight-loss book in infomercials, and he was taken into custody, prosecutors said. Jurors took less than an hour to find Trudeau, 50, guilty of violating a 2004 federal court settlement with the Federal Trade Commission that barred him from misrepresenting the contents of his books in advertisements, said Randall Samborn, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago. Prosecutors had argued Trudeau knowingly violated the 2004 agreement while marketing his book, "The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don't Want You To Know About," in infomercials made in 2006 and 2007 that aired about 32,000 times. In part, Trudeau told viewers in the infomercials that the "cure" to obesity was not a diet and did not require exercise, but the book instructed readers to walk an hour each day and to limit intake to 500 calories.


Hard-hit areas in Philippines receiving only a trickle of aid

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:41 PM PST

A child waits with fellow typhoon survivors as they line up in the hopes of boarding an evacuation flight on a C-130 military transport plane Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, in Tacloban, central Philippines. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport on Tuesday seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it, leaving behind a shattered, rain-lashed city short of food and water and littered with countless bodies. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Desperately needed food, water and medical aid are only trickling into this city that took the worst blow from Typhoon Haiyan, while thousands of victims jammed the damaged airport Tuesday, seeking to be evacuated.


Saturn like you've never seen

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:05 PM PST

Saturn, Earth Shine in Amazing New Photo by NASA ProbeNASA photo shows several of its moons, all but one of its rings; Earth, Venus and Mars.


E-cigarettes a lifesaver? Really, now...

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:13 PM PST

A delegate uses an e-cigar during "The E-Cigarette Summit" at the Royal Academy in central London on November 12, 2013Switching to e-cigarettes could save millions of smokers' lives, a conference on the increasingly popular devices heard Tuesday, though some experts warned more research on the health effects is needed. The merits of e-cigarettes were thrashed out at a one-day gathering of some 250 scientists, policymakers, industry figures and enthusiasts at the Royal Society in London. The use of electronic cigarettes -- battery-powered devices that simulate smoking by heating and vaporising a liquid solution containing nicotine -- has grown rapidly, with tobacco manufacturers jumping on the trend. Delegates in London debated how the market had moved faster than science or the law.


Calling all the single ladies ... for Obamacare

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 11:17 AM PST

Pro-Obamacare adsProvocative new pro-Obamacare ads urge single women to enroll in exchanges.


Put a ring on it! World's largest orange diamond nets $31.5 m

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:16 PM PST

A model shows "The Orange", a 14.82-carat pear-shaped, vivid orange diamond, during a press preview on October 31, 2013 in GenevaA spectacular and rare orange diamond, the largest known gem of its kind, was on Tuesday auctioned off for a record $31.5 million in Geneva. The deep orange gemstone, which was found in South Africa, weighs a whopping 14.82 carats. The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has handed it the top rating for coloured diamonds: "fancy vivid". "To have one that's over 14 carats is exceptional," Christie's international jewellery director David Warren told AFP.


US Airways-American Airlines reach merger settlement

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:55 PM PST

US Airways jets taxi past a parked American Airlines jet in WashingtonBy Diane Bartz and Soyoung Kim WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - US Airways Group Inc and American Airlines will be allowed to merge to become the world's largest airline after they agreed to give low-cost competitors more access to several key U.S. airports, including in New York and Washington. The agreement, subject to court approval, ends a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit filed in August. The government opposed the merger of US Airways and AMR Corp, parent of bankrupt American Airlines, on the grounds it would hinder competition and lead to higher fares. Department of Justice officials termed the settlement a major boost to the competitiveness at key major airports, while some analysts said the number of flights affected - only about 112 out of about 6,700 daily flights - indicated the change would be incremental.


Philippine president scales back typhoon death toll estimate

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 10:52 AM PST

A military personnel carries a woman who had injured her leg, to a military C-130 aircraft leaving for Manila, after super typhoon Haiyan battered Tacloban City in central PhilippinesAs aid streams into the nation, Benigno Aquino expects the number to be 2,000 to 2,500.


Students try to blockade Bulgaria's parliament, five detained

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 08:17 AM PST

Protesters try to block a police vehicle during a demonstration near the parliament in central SofiaHundreds of Bulgarian students tried to blockade lawmakers inside parliament on Tuesday, escalating their street demonstrations against the Socialist-led government. "The university occupation is not enough, the government does not hear us and completely ignores us, so a blockade of parliament may do it," said Stanislav Kastchiyski, a journalism student at the Sofia University told Reuters. The cabinet of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski took office in May after a center-right government was brought down after massive protests over high utility bills. "We want to stay in Bulgaria and live with dignity.


Clinton: Obama needs to keep health care vow

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 02:41 PM PST

International Rescue Committee Hosts Annual Freedom Award Benefit - InsideThe former president says he likes the law, but says it may need modified.


U.S. justices decline to hear ultrasound abortion case

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 06:52 AM PST

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2013 file photo, pro-abortion rights activists, rally face-to-face against anti-abortion demonstrators as both march in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington in a demonstration that coincides with the 40th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion. The Supreme Court declines for now to jump back into the abortion wars, but a variety of new abortion restrictions in several states could eventually win high court review. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a decision striking down a Oklahoma law that required any woman seeking an abortion to be shown an ultrasound image of the fetus beforehand. By refusing to hear the case, the high court left intact an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that struck down the law on the basis that it violated the U.S. Supreme Court's precedent on abortion restrictions. It was the second time in two weeks that the high court had declined to review an Oklahoma court ruling that struck down an abortion restriction. Last week, the court dismissed another case concerning a state law in Oklahoma that cracked down on the use of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486.


Aid pours into Philippines, just not the right places

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 09:16 AM PST

Typhoon survivors hang signs from their necks as they queue up in the hopes of boarding a C-130 military transport plane Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, in Tacloban, central Philippines. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport on Tuesday seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it, leaving behind a shattered, rain-lashed city short of food and water and littered with countless bodies. The typhoon, known as Haiyan elsewhere in Asia but called Yolanda in the Philippines, was likely the deadliest natural disaster to beset this poor Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)Aid workers, medical teams overwhelmed by thousands seeking food, shelter and rescue.


NYC tops Chicago with nation's tallest tower

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 07:14 AM PST

Committee to say whether NY tower tallest buildingThe Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's Height Committee said the spire atop the 1,776-foot structure is permanent, settling a debate between New York and Chicago over the tallest-building mantle.


Aquino: Philippines typhoon death toll closer to 2,500, not 10,000

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 10:08 AM PST

Residents watch others throw items out from a warehouse after super typhoon Haiyan hit GuiuanBy Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The death toll from the massive typhoon that hit the Philippines is closer to 2,000 or 2,500, not the previously reported figure of 10,000, President Benigno Aquino told CNN on Tuesday. "Ten thousand, I think, is too much," Aquino said in an interview posted on CNN's website.


The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 06:37 AM PST

In this photo taken Saturday, July 20, 2013, an ethanol plant stands next to a cornfield near Nevada, Iowa. When President George W. Bush signed a law in 2007 requiring oil companies to add billions of gallons of ethanol to their gasoline each year, he predicted it would make the country "stronger, cleaner and more secure." But the ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the environment than politicians predicted and much worse than the government admits today. Government mandates to increase ethanol production have helped drive up corn prices leading to marginal land being farmed to produce the crop. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)CORYDON, Iowa (AP) — The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed away the soil. The polluted streams that dump fertilizer into the water supply.


London will test banks with cyber 'war game' attacks

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 12:15 PM PST

The Canary Wharf financial district is seen in east LondonBy Matt Scuffham and Joshua Franklin LONDON (Reuters) - A cyber attack by a foreign government on financial markets played out in one of London's historic halls on Tuesday in a "war game" simulation designed to test the City's defences against online saboteurs. About 100 bankers, regulators, government officials and market infrastructure providers gathered to take part in a exercise dubbed "Waking Shark II" at Plaisterers' Hall in the heart of Britain's financial district. The Bank of England has told banks to strengthen their defences against cyber attacks. One unidentified London-listed company incurred losses of 800 million pounds ($1.3 billion) in a cyber attack several years ago, according to British security services.


Last Jew in Afghanistan faces ruin as kebabs fail to sell

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 12:22 AM PST

By Jessica Donati and Mirwais Harooni KABUL (Reuters) - Zabulon Simintov always removes his kippah, the skullcap worn by Jewish men, before entering his cafe in a dilapidated building that also houses Afghanistan's last synagogue. In his 50s, Simintov is the last known Afghan Jew to remain in the country. He has become something of a celebrity over the years and his rivalry with the next-to-last Jew, who died in 2005, inspired a play. Mindful of Afghanistan's extremely conservative Muslim culture, Simintov tries not to advertise his identity to protect the Balkh Bastan or Ancient Balkh kebab cafe he opened four years ago, naming it after a northern Afghan province.

Poll: Clinton would beat Christie in 2016 matchup

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 05:05 AM PST

Hillary Clinton and Chris ChristieThe 2016 presidential election is 1,093 days away. But if it were held today, and the candidates were Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie, the former secretary of state would have a double-digit lead on the New Jersey governor, a new NBC News national survey finds.


Slain musicians sought NYC for artistic freedom

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 03:28 AM PST

Members of Iranian Rock Band Killed in BrooklynIranian musicians Soroush and Arash Farazmand came to the United States to pursue their passion — playing music in an indie rock band called the Yellow Dogs. Instead of achieving fame for their songs, they gained notoriety for their horrific deaths.


Medicaid is health overhaul's early success story

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 09:23 AM PST

This photo taken Jan. 3, 2013 shows Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, right, with Sue Birch, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing, center, speaking with an attendee of a news conference where Hickenlooper announced a plan to expand Medicaid coverage for adults as called for by President Barack Obama's federal health care law, at the state Capitol in Denver. The underdog of government health care programs is emerging as the rare early success story of President Barack Obama's technologically challenged health overhaul. A yearslong effort to reach eligible residents apparently succeeded in generating the increased demand. The state has installed self-service kiosks in community clinics, hospitals and libraries to sign people up. And a year ago, nurses statewide agreed to help by promoting Medicaid to low-income uninsured patients. "We said to our nurses: 'OK, you're our bounty hunters. You go find our patients,'" Birch said. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)WASHINGTON (AP) — The ugly duckling of government health care programs has turned into a rare early success story for President Barack Obama's technologically challenged health overhaul.


Relief efforts hampered in Philippines' hardest-hit areas

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 04:08 AM PST

Survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan wait for a military plane at Tacloban airport, in Leyte province, central Philippines, on November 12, 2013Aid workers, medical teams overwhelmed by thousands seeking food, shelter and rescue.


Iran rejects blame for nuclear talks failure

Posted: 12 Nov 2013 10:29 AM PST

In this Nov. 10, 2013, photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry steps aboard his aircraft in Geneva, Switzerland. Nuclear talks with Iran have failed to reach agreement, but Kerry said differences between Tehran and six world powers made "significant progress." For President Barack Obama, the Iranian nuclear deal he covets now depends in part on his ability to keep a lid on hard-liners on Capitol Hill and an array of anxious allies abroad, including Israel, the Persian Gulf states, and even France. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)Iran, backed by Russia on Tuesday, blamed friction among Western powers for the failure of Geneva talks that came tantalisingly close to a landmark deal on its nuclear programme. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed claims by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Iran had baulked at the deal on offer from the six powers in last week's talks. He said it was French objections to the draft thrashed out by Tehran and Washington that had scuppered an agreement, echoing criticism of French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius in the Iranian media. "Mr Secretary, was it Iran that gutted over half of US draft Thursday night?


Desperate survivors seek to flee typhoon zone

Posted: 11 Nov 2013 11:32 PM PST

Typhoon survivors jostle to get a chance to board a C-130 military transport plane Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, in Tacloban, central Philippines. Thousands of typhoon survivors swarmed the airport on Tuesday seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred made it, leaving behind a shattered, rain-lashed city short of food and water and littered with countless bodies. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)Thousands swarm an airport seeking a flight out, but only a few hundred make it.


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